#relationships

"A windmill has arms, but does not hug. Where’s the love?"

"Virtual Friends [10w] Internet camaraderie's bullshit because these 'friends' can't be relied upon."

"Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car."

"Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan."

"Choice vs. Disease [10w] People who label lack of control a disease evade responsibility."

"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back."

"So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it."

"It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about."

"Spineless [10w] There are more spineless men on the planet than jellyfish."

"Some people are oil and water."

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"

"I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones."

"She had eyes like sunsets, and every time she blinked it felt like the end of the world, otherwise known as night."

"Contiguous vs. Continuous Identity Identity's only preserved in death;in life it is ever-changing."

"Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care."

"Free Lunch There's no such thing as a free lunch ~for people who haven't yet learned to beat the system ;)"

"Love me like a wrong turn on a bad roadlate at night."

"Stratospherical Poems [10w] Poets circle the earth in a higher orbit than readers."

"Adult Pretend [10w] "I'm tired of playing 'pretend';let's play 'get-real, bitch."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."